botany

Other forms of botany

plural

botanies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about botany

What does botany mean?

botany means "all the plant life in a particular region or period". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in botany?

botany has 3 syllables: bo-ta-ny. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /ˈbɑtəni/.

What is another word for botany?

Close synonyms include vegetation, flora, phytology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is botany a common word?

botany is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with botany?

1 word rhymes with botany. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.